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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the country has recorded the first presence of the Marburg virus. | Pulse Ghana

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the country's first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus disease.

Anaemia occurs in children when the haemoglobin level in the blood is less than the normal (11 g/dL), the consequence is the decrease of oxygen quantity in the tissues. It is a prevalent public health problem in many low-income countries, including Madagascar, and data on risk factors are lacking. We used existing data collected within the pathophysiology of environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) in Madagascar and the Central African Republic project (AFRIBIOTA project) conducted in under...

Second time the disease with high fatality rate has been detected in western Africa; WHO confirmation awaited

Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng has instructed health officials at provincial and district hospitals, as well as health centres, to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) as early as possible, particularly in malnourished children, children living with HIV and AIDS, and children with severe pneumonia.

Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease.

Preliminary findings of two Marburg virus cases have prompted Ghana to prepare for a potential outbreak of the disease. If confirmed, these would the first

The World Health Organization is waiting for the samples, taken from two unrelated patients, to be processed in Senegal before officially confirming the cases.

A seventh wave is currently spreading around the country